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Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

Government faces legal fight against asylum seeker housing at RAF bases, warns Tory MP

Tory MPs on Wednesday threatened to rebel over plans to house thousands of asylum seekers at former RAF airfields in Essex and Lincolnshire.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick announced RAF Scampton near Lincoln, Wethersfield airfield in Essex and private land in Bexhill, East Sussex will be used as accommodation as he tries to reduce the Government’s £6.8m-a-day hotels bill.

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